Manic GuitarEssential Advice to Learn to Play Guitar | Manic Guitar
So, your pulling off your sequences at semi-quavers at 140bpm (alternate picked), and that’s slow next to your slurring. Not bad. You’ve memorized entire songs of lead guitar note for note (that was satch for me in the old days). Now its time for the real stuff. NUANCE IS KING!!! Read the rest of this entry…
Ok, well maybe don’t actually throw it out, but you know what I mean. Tab can be great to learn a new song. Especially if you want to fast track the process. But if you want to learn your material in a way that will accelerate your development as a player the most, you need to be sitting down with the audio and figuring it out.
Learning songs when your learning the guitar is very important, but something I think is far more important as you progress a bit is to start to make it all up yourself.
Something I think is very important as you learn guitar is to regularly record you playing and listen back yourself. Additionally, while learning to improvise it is of great benefit to practice this improvisation over a backing track, in order to learn how your improv sounds in the context of the underlying chords.
So you’re getting fluent with your chords. You have your open chords down pat, a good range of bar chords, and power chords are pretty simple now days. The way to really make your rhythm guitar come to life is to start focusing on your right hand (or you’re left if you’re a lefty).